JEFFERSON CITY – Bernadette Hinkle, 63, passed away July 26, 2016, following a brief illness at Jewish Hospital in her hometown of Louisville, Ky. She was the wife of Pathway Editor Don Hinkle. A retired registered nurse, she graduated valedictorian of her nursing class from Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Ky., and obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisville. She was a member of Concord Baptist Church, Jefferson City. In addition to her husband, she is … [Read more...]
MBC board recommends governing docs update
BRIDGETON – The MBC Executive Board on July 11 accepted recommended changes in certain MBC governing documents, culminating a two-year effort by a Board-appointed task force to review, simplify, and update them. The Board is scheduled to present these documents to messengers at the MBC Annual Meeting Oct. 24-26 in St. Charles. If accepted, Missouri Baptists have one year to review the documents and then vote on them at the 2017 annual meeting. To help Missouri Baptists prepare for this … [Read more...]
Hannibal-area ministry leads addicts to gospel freedom
Perhaps the deeper the depths of sin, the better the appreciation for redemption through Jesus. James Bridges, pastor Living Way Christian Fellowship in Hannibal, has a heart for those in various addictions, especially drugs and alcohol. He knows first hand what it is like to be delivered. “I’m an ex-addict. I’ve been clean 13 years. I’ve been in prison five times for a total of 10 years,” Bridges said. “I was saved and delivered in 2003. God put a burden on my heart to reach out to … [Read more...]
Missouri native recruits interims for U.K. churches
KENNETT – Growing up on a cotton farm deep in Missouri’s Boot Heel, pastoring churches was the furthest thing from Chuck McComb’s mind. But an engineering degree from the University of Missouri and a 35-year career with Monsanto somehow put McComb in the perfect position to help find and match interim pastors with churches. In England. In 1974, Monsanto sent McComb and his family across the Atlantic to help establish a chemical plant in England. While there, they worshipped at a Baptist … [Read more...]
SBU’s Kurt Caddy: Children’s book to bring hope of Christ to Lakota tribe
BOLIVAR – When a missionary to the Navaho spoke at 9-year-old Kurt Caddy’s church, he couldn’t have known the impact his words would have on children for generations to come. Caddy, the Director of University Ministries at SBU and father of six, recently penned and illustrated Keep Hope Alive, a children’s book designed to share biblical hope with Native American children and communities. As a young boy, Kurt Caddy found himself gripped by the stories and lives of Native Americans. His … [Read more...]
Executive board sets $14.8M budget
BRIDGETON – Meeting at the Missouri Baptist Children’s Home here, the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) executive board approved its 2017 budget, based on an overall $14.8 million Cooperative Program (CP) goal for the year. According to the proposed 2017 CP goal, 5 percent of the funds collected through CP is set aside in a “shared expenses” category, which is allocated for annuity protections and The Pathway. This has been part of the allocation since 2012. From the remaining funds, … [Read more...]
Horse whisperer to be featured at Mo. State Fair
SEDALIA – James Frazier wrestled steers and manhandled broncs as a rodeo cowboy in his youth, but at 46, he has found a calmer, quieter, not to mention safer, way of bringing an animal with a bad attitude into submission: talking to it. Frazier will host the free horse whispering demonstration at 10 a.m. Aug. 11 at the Mathewson Exhibition Center at the Missouri State Fair. Admission to the Fair is normally $10 for adults and $7 for seniors, but on the 11th, Opening Day, admission is $4 … [Read more...]
Lawsuit targets city’s grant to National Baptists
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) – Atheists have sued a National Baptist pastor and Kansas City government leaders over a $65,000 grant approved for use during the Baptist group's upcoming national convention in the city. The grant to John Modest Miles Ministries, a community nonprofit arm of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in Kansas City, violates Missouri law that prohibits public aid for religious purposes, American Atheists Inc. and two of its Kansas City members claim in a lawsuit … [Read more...]
Affton replant reclaims its community
Article by Karen L. Willoughby AFFTON, Mo. (BP) – An interim pastor told the dwindling, aging congregation he was to help "transition," that First Baptist Church of Affton was on its death journey. He showed them the statistics, demographics, and physically less-able status of members mostly in their 70s and beyond, and, "We told him we weren't just going to roll over and play dead," said Bill Wright, 72 and chairman of the deacons. But the church did die -- intentionally -- and on … [Read more...]
Mo. youth make an impact through Global Encounter
ST. LOUIS – Before their week with Global Encounter Ministries, Brett Blair spent months in prayer for revival to come to his student ministry. “We didn’t know exactly what we had been praying for but we could identify underlying spiritual warfare,” said Blair, associate pastor of students and families at Faith Baptist Church in Festus. “We felt like there were some strongholds in their lives holding them back from turning our student ministry from not just a string of fun events, but … [Read more...]
Strachan resigns as CBMW president
KANSAS CITY (BP) – Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Owen Strachan has announced his resignation as president of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, citing a need “to step back” from “filling two vocational roles” simultaneously. A theological debate this summer regarding the relationship between God the Father and God the Son – a debate that has included criticism of CBMW – “played no part” in Strachan’s decision to resign, he told Baptist Press in an email. “I … [Read more...]
‘God is in control,’ Mo. police chief says amid shootings across the nation
CAPE GIRARDEAU (CE) – Wes Blair had planned a quiet sunrise walk on the beach July 8. Instead, shootings in Dallas the night before prompted the vacationing chief of police of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to reflect on events in his former hometown. Blair and his wife learned of the tragedy about 3 a.m. via Facebook. At dawn, Wes headed to the beach solo. “I think that was God’s design. If [my wife] had been with me, we’d have had a conversation.” Nor would Blair have had his cell phone, … [Read more...]
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